St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-29
The Kingsley-Billings Affair
at .Waveply, TO-, a Mixed
Up Affair.
A Fiendish Scheme Worked
up to Blackmail the Mur-i
dered Man.
A Bloody Fight of Russian
and Hungarian Miners at
Hibernia, N. j.
DR.. Stokes, Of Middleburg,
O., Chloroformed and
Robbed of $500.
Snncial TO the Globe

Special to the Globe.
WAvERLY, To-. Dec. 2s.-The coro-
ner's jury is still investigating the
causes which led to the shooting of
County Attorney w. S. Kingsley on the
evening of Dec. 81. Many witnesses
have been examined, and it is probable
the jury will be in session the remain
der of the week. NJ. +. Billings. the
man who was seen to run out of the
stairway leading to Kingsley's Office on
the night of the shooting, has given the
bulk of the testimony. 1t seems as if
he charged Kingsley with seducing a
young girl, and having failed III his at
tempt to
RUIN KINGSLEY's CHARACTER,
he at once charged Kingsley with de-
bauching aud seducing his (Billing's)
wife. Among the papers taken from
Billings by the sheriff and examined to-
day were sixteen notes running from w.
S. Kingsley to NJ. f. Billings, amount
ing in the aggregate to $3.50, secured
by real estate mortgage on the property
in this city purchased by Kingsley from
Billings last summer, also by a chattel
mortgage on Kingsley's law library,
all horses. cattle, carriages or other per-
sonal property hereafter to be owned by
Kingsley until the full sum had been
paid. Payments were to be made
monthly, on the first day of each month,
beginning with 1888 and ending i'll 1908.
There was also an order from Kingsley
to the county auditor
ASSIGNING HIS SALARY
as county attorney to Billings at the
rate of $50 per month for 1888, $50 per
month for 1889 and $40 per month there
after. Also an information charging
Kingsley with the seduction of Emma
Shane, one commencing an action
against Kingsley for adultery with De-
liah E. Billings; confession by Mrs.
Billings and affidavits by himself. The
legal papers were all drawn up and
ready to receive Kingsley's signature.
timony elsewhere, he went to Kings
ley's office prepared to make
him sign away his character
and property, to say nothing of
forcing him to mortgage his future for
some years to come. To make his docu-
mentS more plausible he had initiated
the writing of ID. Il. Gibson and E. w.
RiSdon, two of our most prominent clti-
zens, and used them to
SCARE THE POOR VICTIM
whom he sought to ruin. Mrs. Billings
has been giving her testimony to-day
about what she knows Of the Waverly
scandal. She makes the charge that
Kingsley had induced her to hold
criminal intercourse with him three or
four times during the past summer.
This corrObOrates her husbands testi-
mony OH this point with one exception.
She states that at one particular time
she and Kingsley had sinned in the
bath room, and that he Kingsley
pulled down the curtain; that a light
was in the room. Her husband testified
that this particular time he was under
the bed room window watching her and
Kingsley, and that there was light in
the room. and that she pulled down the
curtain. There were a few other points
in her testimony that were contrary to
those given by her husband. but they
are of minor importance.